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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:16:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Daniel C. Fifield" <danf@JADETech.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: QPopper Timeouts!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612021502.11999H-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980609131822.21880A-100000@server1.bisnet.net>

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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Daniel C. Fifield wrote:

> I am currently experiencing timeout problems with users that have large 
> (greater than 1 Meg) attachments in their e-mails.

This is normal.  popper insists on copying the mailbox file to a private
copy before transferring it, and this takes a while on busy servers.  We
have the same problem on our campus mailserver.

> I can not limit my user to less than 1 meg attachments.

Yes you can, it's called quotas.  :-)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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